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Re: zipping like Archive Utility
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Re: zipping like Archive Utility


  • Subject: Re: zipping like Archive Utility
  • From: Tito Ciuro <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:56:09 -0700

Hi Matt,

On 27/07/2010, at 07:43, Matt Gough wrote:

> I am automating my build process so that my built Installer package gets zipped up before uploading to a web site. Previously I have manually used Finder's Compress option to do this (which goes via Archive Utility)
>
> I tried just using zip, but that gave substantially larger archive sizes.
> I can't do it via 'open -a 'Archive Utility' <ThingToCompress>' as the script it is running from won't have a usable WindowServer at the time.
>
> The closest  (in size) that I have got is:
>
> tar -zcf "My Installer.zip" "My Installer.mpkg"
>
> However whilst the resultant file can be expanded via Archive Utility, attempting to get Safari to decompress it after download results in a "Decompression failed" error.
>
> Any ideas?

Perhaps using ditto?:

ditto -c -k -X --rsrc --sequesterRsrc <fullSourcePath> <fullTargetPath>

-- Tito
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